The belief that you actually have an effect on where earthquakes occur in the world.

Link: "Maybe it's us. Maybe us coming out here redirected the epicenter of U.S. earthquakes to where we were from."
Rhett: "That's called egocentric thinking, Link. That you think that we had something to do with the earthquakes in the world."
Link: "I would call it egoseismic thinking."

A way of thinking where a person believes seismic activity in a certain area is based on their physical location.

"We moved from North Carolina to California and there hasn't been an earthquake in California ever since, but there has been one in North Carolina"
"Maybe us coming out here has redirected the epicenter of US earthquakes to where we were from"
"That's egoseismic thinking"